Invaluable Resource for Professional Looking Photos

Thanks to a really great friend of mine, I have recently come across an invaluable resource for creating professional looking photos.  

It is called Clipping Magic.  With this amazing free online tool, you can quickly and easily remove the backgrounds of images, so that all your left with is the object of the photo.

Then, you can EITHER leave the background transparent, so that it can be placed onto a new background or be used as a watermark image, OR you make the background completely white, or any other colour you would like it to be.

NOTE: As you clip your photo, it will show the original image with markings to the left and the edited version to the right.

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Step 1 ~ Mark what you want to Keep

The first thing you will do is mark the areas of the image you wish to keep.  You just have to make sure you mark at least once per colour.  

For the first chess photo below, I just place one dot on each piece.

For the first scrunchy photo below, I made several marks across the hand and scrunchy.

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Step 2 ~ Mark what you want to Erase

The second thing you will do is mark the background areas you wish to erase.  One to a few strokes ought to do the trick.  Depending on your object this may all you have to do to your picture.

For the next chess photo, you'll see that is successfully erased everything and then some of the castle.

For the next scrunchy photo, it completely erased the outer perimeter nicely with that one stroke.

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Step 3 ~ Touch Ups

If there are still some areas to clear, or it erased part of the object, you'll need to to a few minor touch ups...

For the scrunchy, I had to make a few more red-erasing marks.  So, I changed the size of the marker and added an extra dot or 2 into the spaces.  I zoomed in to see them more clearly in the one pic.  See following two pics...

For the chess photo, it erased the bottom corner of the castle, so I fixed this by making an extra mark with the green-keep highlighter.

Now your image is ready with a transparent background.  If you want to use it for watermarking, or placing onto a new background, you'll download the picture just like is.  Otherwise, you'll proceed to Step 4.

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Step 4 ~ Change the background Colour ~ Optional ~

I like to use a white background because it really makes my crochet pieces pop!  See following two images...

However, sometimes it is fun to pick another colour.

For the chess photo below, I input a colour code number, and for the scrunchy, I picked one of the default colours.

Whenever you are happy with your image, you just have to press the download button, and volia, you're done!

Of course, there are many more things you can do with this clipping magic tool.  I still have much to learn about using this tool, but so far, I am loving it!  

Just the other day, I was able to edit over 100 pictures for my barbie wedding custom order (I will be sharing this with you all soon) in just two days!  This normally would have taken me about a week with a paint program I was using.

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What other fun tools have you found to be useful?  Share them with me below...